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I recently received this Western Digital My Passport Essential five hundred GB USB 3.0 and USB two.0 portable External Hard Drive WDBACY5000ABK-NESN (Midnight Black) from Amazon Vine and that i am more than happy with it.

it's the first USB 3.0-capable device I have owned. i'm using this, and all of my different external arduous drives, as storage units solely (in different words, for backing up and storing my document files and folders, my music, my footage, and my videos, not for backing up the computer itself). it is a nice massive moveable hard drive, as massive or larger in capacity than most laptop computers. It requires no power apart from that provided by the USB port.

When it arrived I opened the box and retrieved the drive. Having done that, I gently shook the drive to make bound that nothing was loose inside. Then I physically examined it to form certain that the ports were properly fitted and aligned with the outer case. Everything was fine. At that point I inserted the supplied cable's plug into the (new-type) miniature USB port on the drive and inserted the regular USB plug into my computer. each ends work simply and perfectly.

As i'm using the Ubuntu Linux operating system on my computer, the drive opened instantly. I saw the same old WD backup programs, etc., that are of no use to me and which I immediately removed. (From what I actually have browse, many people do not want or wish WD's backup programs. Fortunately, on this drive, they are easy to delete.) The drive now has 465.6 GiB of obtainable space. (My system analyzer shows that 100 MB is being used for "something" however i don't grasp what it is.) I copied some files onto the drive and they installed perfectly, just as they have done on my other external exhausting drives.

As is, it'll work perfectly with Microsoft Windows systems and, with reformatting, it will work with Apple Mac systems.

This explicit external hard drive is kind of nice - little, well-made, and convenient to use. I cannot treat the speed of USB three.0 transfers as i don't have something that has USB three.0 as yet. When it becomes standard on notebook or netbook computers, i am going to buy one in all those; i'm wanting forward to faster transfer speeds. From the samples of file transfer given on the outer box, the speed differential doesn't appear to be as quick as I had been led to believe from articles in magazines and on the internet. however any speed increase are welcome.

Of course, like all USB drives, it is absolutely compatible with USB two.0 and USB one.1 (though I don't apprehend the power arrangements with USB 1.1).

The only purpose on which I cannot comment definitively in this review is that of longevity. i'll have had to own it for many years before I can say something really useful concerning that! but all of my different Western Digital onerous drives have worked perfectly from Day One and every one continue to work perfectly.

I hope this info could also be of some interest to anyone who desires to buy this drive. I have to admit that i am somewhat prejudiced: I own a half-dozen or a lot of Western Digital arduous drives and i like all abundantly. My oldest, a 40 GB (which was considered HUGE at the time I bought it, perhaps half dozen or 7 years ago) continues to be in regular use as are all the others. As I said, all of them have held up fantastically thus I should expect that this one can too.

In my opinion, if you're currently within the marketplace for a larger moveable onerous drive, this is often the one to shop for because it are going to be usable with all versions of USB for the foreseeable future. I highly advocate it.

I conjointly strongly recommend that you buy more than one external exhausting drive (preferably this one because it includes a giant capability and is USB 3.0-capable) on which you save your information (redundancy). ought to your computer's exhausting drive or even (or also) one in all these drives be damaged or corrupted in how, you'll still have your information. that is what I do. It's low cost insurance! the possibilities of losing your computer's laborious drive and two external onerous drives ought to be quite low. (I suppose that there's a larger likelihood of your computer's exhausting drive to fail than there is of 1 of these externals to do thus.)

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